Decreased foreign direct investment, poor growth prospects and tight finance are some of the adversities MENA countries face in 2011 and 2012 according to IMF Middle East and Central Asia Department director
Oil importing economies of the Middle (...)
For years, economists in the Arab region have been arguing that economic development is not sustainable without democracy. Nowadays, with revolutions breaking out from the Atlantic to the Gulf in quest for democracy, economists are not insuring that (...)
Ahmed Galal is managing director of the Economic Research Forum (ERF), a regional research institution covering the Arab countries, Iran and Turkey. Before that, Galal was executive director of the Egyptian Centre for Economic Studies (ECES), (...)
